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'Strange Interlude' Promotional pamphlet, Salina Kansas1929 Hardcover Near Fine 1929 8 pp. with portrait of Eugene O'Neill on the inside front cover .Promotional pamphlet for a 'one evening only' performanceat the Grande Theatre, Salinas Kansas, on January 23rd, year not stated but believed to be 1929. Eight pages of reviews of 'Strange Interlude,' including reviews by Joseph Wood Krutch, Brooks Atkinson, and George Jean Nathan. Back page has ticket prices $1.00 -$3.00) and a note that the produuction would break for an hour and a half dinner intermission and that it would be best to make dinner reservations in adfvance. Cover has a red, grey and black sillouette drawing.. Stapled Soft Cover. Near Fine. 4.5" x 6.25". Pamphlet.
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85.00 USD

Aherne, BrianBrian Aherne Signed 8x10 Publicity Photo.1934 Fine 1934 Publicity still of Brian Aherne (1902 -1986) from the 1934 MGM film "What Every Woman Knows," with his signature in red ink. From the estate of choreographer, Richard Maitland. Brian Aherne was an Oscar-nominated Anglo-American stage and screen actor who was one of the top cinema character actors in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. No damage save for small crinkle along one edge. Parenthetically, he was a hunk.. Fine. 8"x 10".
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350.00 USD

Atkinson, BrooksNew Voices in the American Theatre Modern Library # 256Modern Library 1955 Hardcover Very Good Very Good Modern Library, 1955 xi, 599pp + 2 pp of advertising. Complete texts of Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire," "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller, "Come Back Little Sheba" by William Inge, "The Seven Year Itch" by George Axelrod, "Tea and Sympathy" by Robert Anderson, "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" by Herman Wouk. Foreward by NY Times critic Brooks Atkinson. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is intact, tanned, not price-clipped. In protective mylar.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket present.
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16.00 USD

Bentley, EricThe Playwright as Thinker A Study of Drama in Modern TimesNew York Reynal & Hitchcock 1946 First Edition Hardcover Very Good No Jacket New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946 382 with index. A discussion of the philosophical underpinnings of modern dramsa, including Ibsen, Shaw, Strindberg, Jean-Paul Sartre and Bertolt Brecht. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, slightly yellowed. Deckle edged pages.Grey cloth boards with black stamped title are sunned along top and spine else VG Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition.
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23.00 USD

Blau, HerbertTake Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing PointBaltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. Univ of Illinois Pr 1982 0252009452 / 9780252009457 Hardcover Very Good Good Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Univ of Illinois Pr, 1982 299 pp "Blau has written a dramatic and difficult book . an accountof the culture and critique of the theatre experimentation in the 60's and 70's, a personal view of his theatre work from Lincoln Center on, and an intense reaction to contemporary intellectual currents." Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is quite shelfworn, with one closed tear. In mylar protector.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Dust jacket present.
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12.00 USD

Blum, DanielScreen World Daniel Blum's Film Annual Volume NineNew York Greenberg 1858 Hardcover Very Good Good New York: Greenberg, 1858 Vol 9.The ninth volume in this series contains a precis of every movie released in 1957, with cast credits and still photos. The contents include chapters on Promising Personalities, Foreign Films and Obituaries. The year's releases included "Bridge on the River Kwai", "Three Faces of Eve," Evis in "Jaihouse Rock" and Brigette Bardot in "And God Created Woman."B&W photos on every page, text is clean, tight unmarked, slightly wracked.Grey cloth boards are clean, DJ is bumped and chipped at extremities, chip missing along spine, spine quite faded. In mylar jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Dust jacket present.
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60.00 USD

Blum, DanielScreen World Daniel Blum's Film Annual Volume VlNew York Greenberg 1955 Hardcover Very Good Good New York: Greenberg, 1955 The sixth volume of Daniel Blum's Screen World series contains a precis of every movie released in 1955, with cast credits and still photos. Includes chapters on Promising Personalities, foreign films and obituaries. The year's releases included marlon Brando in'The Wild One,' and 'On the Waterfront,''Mr. Hulot's Holiday,' The Country Girl' with Grace Kelly, and 'A Star is Born' with Judy Holiday and James Mason.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Dust jacket present.
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60.00 USD

Blum, DanielTheatre World 1948-49 SeasonNew York Greenberg 1949 Paperback Very Good No Jacket as Published New York: Greenberg, 1949 224 pp with B&W illustrations on every page. The Broadway season of 48-49 that introduced Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific, Death of a Salesman, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Plus out-of-town productions, biographies of popular Broadway players and obituaries. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are faded at spine,back cover is dogeared. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Published. Dust jacket present.
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13.00 USD

Cooke, AlistairDouglas Fairbanks The Making of a Screen CharacterNew York The Museum of Modern Art 1940 Hardcover Good Plus No Jacket New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1940 36 pp. Alistair Cooke discusses the creation of the public image of Doug Fairbanks shortly after Fairbanks' death in 1939. Contains a life chronology and a list of screen credits. Association copy - from the library of screenwriter Nunnally Johnson (The Grapes of Wrath," "How to Marry a Millionaire.") Text is clean and unmarked, slightly yellowed. Front gutter is cracked but holding. Blue illustrated boards are clean and square with a closed tear at spine and some yellowing. 7 1/2" X 10". Decorative Paper Hardcover. Good Plus/No Jacket. 7 1/2" X 10".
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42.00 USD